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Expand Your Use of Digital Channels to Hit Quota

Sales and Marketing Management

Author: Shawn Finder Ask sales and marketing leaders what digital channels they leverage to generate leads and help their teams hit quota and you’ll likely get the same answer over and over: cold calls and emails. It’s capable of including other mediums, both visual and auditory, which means you can engage your prospects on a deeper level.

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Churn Is A Variable of Quota You Need To Know

The Pipeline

But it is still a sum that has to be recovered before we start retiring quota. Churn is a variable of quota you need to know. Most go for the easy and perhaps obvious option; they gross up their quota by what they feel their average churn rate is. Not just know, but plan for and manage like any other element of sales success.

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Sales Prospecting: How to Boost Motivation & Exceed Sales Quotas

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Confucius This famous quote rings true for many aspects of life, including sales prospecting. Despite the critical role it plays in securing new clients, sales prospecting often ends up as a dreaded task for many SDRs (Sales Development Representatives). So why do sales reps lose enthusiasm for prospecting?

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Beating your Stress Quota

The Pipeline

While there are distinct sources of stress for a sales rep, their manager, customers and the ever-present quota. There is a reason why successful salespeople seem less wound up: they do not have the quota stress. That is precisely how high performing sellers see quota stress, they don’t, because they don’t see or feel that.

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Outbound Prospecting – Filling Your Sales Pipeline

Speaker: Mark Hunter, CSP, “The Sales Hunter”

Prospecting has never been easy and nowadays it has become even harder as people are responding less and less to many forms of communication. Therefore, the majority of salespeople do not make their quota and this is a key reason why there is so much turnover in sales jobs. Turn a lead into a prospect. Have the right mindset.

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A Complete Prospecting System

The Pipeline

From the time of the first salesperson, sales leaders have been trying to figure out how to get their teams to prospect. In a recent survey, 42% of sales and corporate leaders identified prospecting as a skills gap in their organizations. How do sales leaders create and balance the core element of a fine-tunes prospecting machine?

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Sales Capacity vs. Quota Attainment: How To Build Efficient Sales Teams

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And for revenue leaders, that means the tug-of-war between sales capacity and quota attainment is perhaps more important than ever. Instead of seeing sales as purely a problem of capacity, sales leaders should focus on the other half of the equation: quota attainment. So how should sales leaders evaluate and measure quota attainment?

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The Impact of Direct Dials on Sales Productivity

Often, sales reps who fail to hit the phones hard are left wondering how they missed their quota. While dialing away at targeted prospects, it’s important for them to remember that not all sales outreach is created equal.

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Three Simple Ways To Increase ROI From Your Current Sales Process Immediately!

Speaker: Donald Kelly, Founder & Chief Sales Evangelist at The Sales Evangelist LLC

What if there was a way to hit quota while shortening the time it takes to close a deal without dropping your price? During this session, you will learn: How to minimize the time it takes for your prospect to commit and make a final buying decision. How in the world are you supposed to survive as a seller? Would you be interested?